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R. K. GUINZBURG.

CARTER 0R HOSE SUPPORTER.

APPLlc/mou FILED ocT.28. 1915.

1 1 95,354. Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

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RALPH K. GUINZBUBG, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO I. B. KLEINERT RUBBER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GARTER 0R HOSE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led October 28, 1915. Seiial No. 58,305.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH K. GUINz- BURG, a citizen of the United States, and\a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, (Whose post-oilice address 1s 726 Broadway, in said city,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements m Garters or Hose-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

'4 My invention relates to garters or hose supporters, or devices of that character, and the special object of the improvements is to simplify and economize in the construction of such devices.

A further object of my invention is to eliminate the binding action of that part of the garter which encircles the limb of the wearer to render it more flexible to the various motions or stresses incidental to the use of an article of this kind, and'to enable it to snuglydfit and accommodate itself to the various contour of limb, ,without requiring a special adg'flstment for that purose.

With these .objects in view, my invention resides in thehconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter described and further pointed out in the claims.

. In the drawing forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the garter in full; Fig. 2 is an enlarged diagrammatic view of a portion of the web of the pad, diagrammatically illustratingV one method of making the same; and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a modified form of pad.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout the several views.

The main and essential feature of my invention is the employment of a pad, as 1, preferably triangular in configuration. To one corner 2 of the pad is fixedly secured the leg band 3, which is provided in the usual way with an adjusting loop 4 and slide 5, loop 6, and the pad at the corner 7 is provided with a conventional headed button 8 adapted t0 be detachably engaged with the eye 9 on the loop 6 to detachably secure the leg band in place on the pad. At the lower corner 10 of the pad is secured the conventional form of clasp 11.

I, of course, prefer that the leg band and clasping device be inelastic, but I do not desire to have my invention limited to the employment of inelastic devices projecting from the pad.

In the manufacture of the pad, I prefer` to employ elastic webbing in which there are alternating sections 12 of inelastic material and elastic material 13, such as rubber strands, all united in such a way that the fabric may be expanded and contracted in the direction of the length or plane of the elastic strands. Such a construction is diagrammatically illustrated in Fig. 2, where the sections 12, While inelastic, are capable of being flexed or expanded and contracted in almost every directiony except at right angles to the plane of the rubber strands 12.

It will be seen from the foregoing that the main idea is to provide an imperforate or substantially imperforate pad having a normal plane of expansion and contraction, substantially in line with the expansion or contraction of the leg band, which is diagrammatically illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and accommodating fiexibility at the sides 14 and 15 of the Ipad, while the pad is entirely inelastic inthe line of the pull of the clasp 11, as indicated by the dotted line a-a of Fig. 1.

The pad is perfectly flexible in all directions, except that it is inelastic in the direction of the pull or line of stress exerted on it through suspending the hose or other garment. Its elasticity along the plane of the sides 15, and to a maximum extent, substantially in the direction of the legY band, provides a perfect freedom of movement and accommodation to various strains, stresses, movements and lilnb configurations.

While I have stated that the pad is preferably imperforate, I' desire to be understood as meaning that it is to be imperforate along the lines of movement indicated above, and that also I do not include the making of the fabric of the pad of looped material, which will leave openings therein when the pad is relaxed, or when it is distended.

Instead of making the pad of material in which the elastic strands run generally therethrough, on a plane substantially coincident with the axis of the leg band, the elastic strands may be arranged as shown PatentedAug. 22, 1916.

at 16, 17 and 18 in Fig. 3, where the lines A of elastic resistance are produced in the pad ,in substantially the same way ashave existed in the preferred form of pad shown in Fig. 1.

The pull on the strands at 16 is diagrammatically illustrated by the arrows 19 and 20, and the pull on the strands 17 and 18 likewise indicated by the arrows 21, 22.

It will be manifest that my invention is subject to modification without departing from its spirit, so I do not limit myself to the exact structure shownv herein, but deem that my invention is as broad `as the scope of the claims appended hereto.

I'claim:

1. A garter comprising .a substantially fiat elastic pad with a clasp depending from its lower end, said pad being distensible in all directions except in the direction of the alength of the clasp and a leg band secured to said pad.

2. A garter comprising a substantially flat, imperforate, substantially triangular pad having an attaching clasp depending from its lower end, said pad being distensible in all directions except in the direction of the length of the clasp and an inelastic leg band secured to said pad adjacent the upper end of said pad.

Signed at' thepcity, county and State of New York, this 20th day of October, 1915.

RALPH K. .GUINZBURG. 

